“Those women just asked what a white person is doing here” my Malaysian co-worker translates for me as we walk through a local…
It’s now been a month since I’ve come back from Malaysia, and this is long overdue. Readjusting to my life back home was difficult, but in hindsight, this was merely a facet of trying to re-ground myself given how much I had changed.
*This blog was originally written on July 15th
Culture shock. I heard these two words almost every day for the week leading up to my departure, almost like it was some kind of buzzword. “Your first time in Asia?! The culture shock is going to be crazy!” everyone told me time and time again, but what I didn’t anticipate was how literally shocking the…
There’s an Onsen I visit sometimes near this station. I had to vocalize those words pretty loudly in my head — the parts of thinking…
“So no pork cutlets?”
My step into Japan was one of ambition and romanticism in which I wanted to see the world in a completely…
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